The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
Robert Kaplan, writing together with his
wife Ellen Kaplan, once again takes us on a witty, literate, and
accessible tour of the world of mathematics. Where The Nothing That Is
looked at math through the lens of zero, The Art of the Infinite
takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for
understanding mathematical thinking. Tracing a path from Pythagoras,
whose great Theorem led inexorably to a discovery that his followers
tried in vain to keep secret (the existence of irrational numbers);
through Descartes and Leibniz; to the brilliant, haunted Georg Cantor,
who proved that infinity can come in different sizes, the Kaplans show
how the attempt to grasp the ungraspable embodies the essence of
mathematics ...
Bear and Roly-Poly (a picture book by Elizabeth Winthrop)
Bear, the diminutive stuffed-animal hero who adjusted to having a
baby-sitter in Bear and Mrs. Duck, welcomes a cuddly cub sibling into
the family in the latest Winthrop/Brewster collaboration. When Nora,
Bear's owner, goes off to Grandma's house to get a baby sister for
Bear, he imagines he'll be a helpful big brother. But he never expected
that "baby" Roly-Poly would be larger than himself, or that she would
not look at all like him (she is a panda), or that she would cry so
much.
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